Signal warrant officers from the 21st Theater Sustainment Command and from around Europe are briefed by Chief Warrant Officer 3 Randy Nkoulou during warrant officer professional development focused on data centricity in Ramstein, Germany, Feb. 12, 2024. received. More than 20 Signal Warrant Officers and contractors from the 21st TSC, U.S. Army Europe and Africa, U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Theater Signal Brigade came together to do what Warrant Officers do best: We talked about being a technical expert. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Daniel Yeadon)
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21st Theater Sustainment Command and European signal warrant officers are briefed during warrant officer professional development focused on data centricity Feb. 13, 2024, in Ramstein, Germany. The two-day event featured guest speakers from Optiv + ClearShark and NetApp. , Varonis, Splunk, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Aruba Networks, and US Army Signal Activity Kaiserslautern to learn how to recognize, transfer, store, shape, and manipulate data. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Daniel Yeadon)
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RAMSTEIN, Germany – European Theater Signal Warrant Officers gathered in Ramstein, Germany for the 21st Theater Sustainment Command-led Signal Warrant Officer Professional Development Session Feb. 12-13, 2024. The focus of WOPD was to explore ways to carry out operations. The Army’s latest data centricity and zero trust plan is scheduled to take effect by 2027.
More than 20 Signal Warrant Officers and Contractors from the 21st TSC, UR-AF, U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Theater Signal Brigade came together to do what Warrant Officers do best: technical specialization. We talked about providing knowledge.
Col. Ernest Lane, 21st TSC Chief of Staff, said in his opening remarks that Warrant Officers are champions of innovation and that the U.S. Army thrives on forward thinking and solutions.
“A lot of solutions are going to come out of this room from the people sitting in this seat,” Lane said. “That’s a warrant officer’s job. They’re looking for the next solution. They’re looking for the next problem they can solve. I think of a warrant officer as the type of person who tries to solve his boss’s boss’s problem. I consider myself a leader.”
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Randy Nkoulou, 21st TSC Data Operations Chief Warrant Officer and WOPD’s lead planner, said the event took about four months to plan. Nkoulou said the forum will help the 21st TSC and other departments modernize how their organizations use data.
“Guidance and retention are very important to me,” Nkoulou said. “We want them to know that they are experts in technology. This setting teaches warrant officers that there is a solution to get us where we want to go, one that is up-to-date and It shows that it is flexible and has data available to all users.”
The two-day event will feature guest speakers from Optiv + ClearShark, NetApp, Varonis, Splunk, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Aruba Networks, and U.S. Army Signal Activity Kaiserslautern to recognize, transfer, store, shape, and manipulate data. We’ve shared best practices on how. .
To propel the 21st TSC into the new millennium, Nkoulou said the forum will demonstrate how signal warrant officers can modernize sustainment operations using new data-driven technologies.
“There is a lot of data on sustainability,” Nkoulou says. “Earlier, we focused on setting up the network and setting up applications for the users. Now, I have to say that the most important thing that the users need is data. We are the bosses. You have to show them the data, it has to make sense, and it has to give them the ability to make decisions.”
Warrant Officer Chantal Tavitian, a systems engineer warrant officer at the 1st Theater Personnel Operations Center, said she learned a lot from WOPD as a rookie warrant officer in the Signal Corps and plans to incorporate what she learns into her daily duties.
“At the end of the day, it’s all about networking and collaboration,” Tabitian says. “I was able to see what my fellow warrant officers were doing and some of the free programs and software they recommended for use, and I learned more about my job as a data analyst. I’m happy to be able to do that.”
More experienced signal warrant officers like Chief Warrant Officer Jason Horton, 2nd TSB’s senior technical advisor, said events like this WOPD are important for signal warrant officers to hone their skills.
Signal warrant officers from the 21st Theater Sustainment Command and various locations in Europe pose for a photo during a warrant officer professional development focused on data centricity Feb. 12, 2024, in Ramstein, Germany. Data centricity and zero trust plans he plans to take effect by 2027 (U.S. Army photo: Sergeant Daniel Yeadon)
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“Being a communications warrant officer is one of the most difficult jobs,” Horton said. “Technology changes every day. Having these types of forums allows us to stay connected with the industry and connect it to the military community by seeing how the industry is solving problems.” can be integrated into.”
Horton said the WOPD helps warrant officers understand common problem sets and how industry is addressing these problems. Mr. Nkoulou points out that by providing technicians with the opportunity to network and communicate technical issues, signal officers need to provide solutions to their home units to solve data-centric problems. He said he was acutely aware of this.
“Communication Warrant Officers need to change their perception of how they perform their jobs,” Nkoulou said. “We need to be trained to find solutions that put that data at the forefront of our operations, much more than what we’ve been doing in the past.”
